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It was the end of the academic year, spring ripening toward summer. She circled the small dorm room, two, three, four times, her eyes pausing to measure each object before passing on to the next. Her long hair was wrapped in a floral bandanna, her...
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He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over...
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Holy Saturday’s Work (for that which is already but not yet) Go outside and kneel beside still-sleeping beds. Strip away all that’s dead; the leaves, brown and curled, and the dry, empty stems of last year’s blossoms. Straighten, one-by-one, the...
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From The Jungle Book, after Mowgli fights off the deadly tiger Shere Kahn and the wolves who betrayed the pack: “At last, only Akela, Bagheera, and about ten wolves who had been loyal to Mowgli remained. The boy’s knees began to weaken, and a hurt began to...
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Then he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay with me.” Matthew 26:38 Snow fell during my March retreat, swirling, driven white upon the spring-green and brown world. Flat and thin, large flakes like communion...
